SPECTRAL UNMIXING OF FOREST CROWN COMPONENTS AT CLOSE RANGE, AIRBORNE AND SIMULATED SENTINEL-2 AND ENMAP SPECTRAL IMAGING SCALE

Spectral Unmixing of Forest Crown Components at Close Range, Airborne and Simulated Sentinel-2 and EnMAP Spectral Imaging Scale

Forest biochemical and biophysical variables and their spatial and temporal distribution are essential inputs to process-orientated ecosystem models.To provide this information, imaging spectroscopy appears to be a promising tool.In this context, the present study investigates the potential of spectral click here unmixing to derive sub-pixel crown

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Use of Bituminous Geomembrane (BGM) to Waterproof Large Canals

Bituminous geomembranes (BGM) collaborate in the global challenge of improving water resources management by waterproofing hydraulic works.BGMs are multi-layered composite geomembranes with each of the components providing a technical benefit on large canals projects.These technical advantages include: A very low Manning coefficient for efficient w

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Multi-Physics Inverse Homogenization for the Design of Innovative Cellular Materials: Application to Thermo-Elastic Problems

We present a new algorithm to design lightweight cellular materials with required properties in a multi-physics context.In particular, we focus on a thermo-elastic setting click here by promoting the design of unit cells characterized both by an isotropic and an anisotropic behavior with respect to mechanical and thermal requirements.The proposed p

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Fixed points in bicomplex valued S-metric spaces with applications

This article introduces the idea of bicomplex valued S-metric space and deduces some of its equi-jec 6 features.Additionally, for bicomplex valued S-metric spaces, some fixed point results of contraction maps are shown to meet various categories of rational inequalities.Moreover, these results generalize certain significant, well-known results.An e

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Understanding Metabolic Regulation Between Host and Pathogens: New Opportunities for the Development of Improved Therapeutic Strategies Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) causes chronic granulomatous lung disease in humans.Recently, novel strategies such as host-directed therapeutics equi-jec 6 and adjunctive therapies that enhance the effect of existing antibiotics have emerged to better control Mtb infection.Recent advances in understanding the metabolic interplay between host immu

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